Lowood says that Stanford stays on the murky (but legal) side of things, so unless the law changes, his university and others will be forced to rely on the work of amateurs who break the law to free cultural works from DRM, collecting them in underground archives that will some day become available to scholars.

Seriously who is going to commit career suicide in a failed attempt to repeal a law that protects corporations when the entirety of law serves only corporations? The cycle of stagnant steady decay is most likely irreversible at this point without a major event that could shift policy, or break enough of the system to kill the corruption, but that would most likely destroy much of what's good within our current system in the process. Hopefully hari seldon gets the go ahead for his foundations. we're gonna need it to rebuild later on.